Graphic communication dates back thousands of years, with some of the first forms appearing BC. Despite their simplicity, designed works from the Paleolithic Era contain the most foundational design methods of communication and transference of information seen across human history.
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This section is remarkable for the group of sixteen or seventeen closely packed boomerang stencils. Some researchers believe that these record the individual weapons of a group of hunters. That they were all completed at the same time is testified to by the lack of overspray from one to the other, and the same colour ochre, dark brown in this instance, is used for all of them.
The red spade shaped stencil in the upper left of the photo is believed to depict a type of flat bladed wooden war club. No examples of the weapon are known to have survived.
